[Linux-disciples] bootup errors

[Karl Sokol]

I rebooted and turned SMART off in the bios config.  Got the same errors.
Then I installed (sic) smartmontools, rebooted and turned SMART back on in
the bios config.  Still got the same errors.

On 12/5/05, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:
>
> Have you tried turning off SMART entirely? The easiest way would be to
> just
> uninstall smartmontools for the time being.
>
> Karl Sokol wrote:
> > My system takes a long time to boot.  I have two hard drives, a 250 gb
> > sata (/dev/sda1) drive that I run windows on and a 40 gb (dev/hda1) ide
> > for Ubuntu.
> >
> > [4294867.752000] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI
> > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x4/00/00
> > [4294867.752000] ata1: status=0x25 { DeviceFault CorrectedError Error }
> > [4294867.752000] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
> > [4294867.752000] sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> > [4294867.752000]     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> > [4294867.752000] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 102
> > [4294869.086000] ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x25/00 to SCSI
> > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x4/00/00
> > [4294869.086000] ata1: status=0x25 { DeviceFault CorrectedError Error }
> > [4294869.086000] SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
> > [4294869.086000] sda: Current: sense key: Hardware Error
> > [4294869.086000]     Additional sense: No additional sense information
> >
> > My system runs more or less O.K. but it takes about 15 minutes to boot
> > as it repeats endless pages of the above.
> >
> > I can find very little on this.  One response to a similar string of
> > errors http://www.nabble.com/Re:-ATA-warnings-in-dmesg-p1148642.html was
> > not terribly helpful.
> >
> > "I don't think you need to worry. Those messages are produced from the
> > libata passthough code, whenever sense data has been requested...
> >
> > 0xb0 looks like a SMART command, so I would guess (haven't looked at
> > -mm) that the ata ioctl handlers have been updated to request it."
> >
> > Not much from Ubuntu forums either
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-76316.html
> >
> > The windows drive mounts within linux with no problem.
> >
> > Should these errors be a concern?  If not, is there a way to suppress
> > them so that the machine boots faster?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>

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Grace and Peace,
Karl Sokol
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